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Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004

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29Inspection of statements of accounts and auditors' reports
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(1)A local government elector for the area of a local government body in Wales may—

(a)at all reasonable times and without payment inspect and make a copy of any statement of accounts prepared by the body under regulations made under section 39;

(b)at all reasonable times and without payment inspect and make a copy of any report (other than a report under section 22(3)) made to the body by an auditor;

(c)require a copy of a statement or report falling within paragraph (a) or (b) to be delivered to him on payment of a reasonable sum for each copy.

(2)A person who has custody of a document falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) commits an offence if—

(a)he obstructs a person in the exercise of a right under this section to inspect or make a copy of the document, or

(b)he refuses to supply a copy of the document to a person entitled to the copy under subsection (1)(c).

(3)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(4)In this section references to a copy of a document include a copy of any part of it.

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